September 5, 2019

KBB is pleased to announce the winners of our 2019 Designs of the Year competition! After reading through multiple submissions, our revered panel of judges chose the best kitchen, bath and showroom projects in our industry. Criteria included fulfilling client requirements, overcoming design challenges and incorporating innovative thinking.

This year’s award-winning projects ran the gamut in terms of creativity, size and design. Recurring themes included bathrooms as retreats, the importance of design for aging in place and well-being, spacious showers, personalization, bold uses of color, seamless cabinetry, mixed materials and textures, hoods concealed by cabinetry, open shelving and showrooms with the ability to display a variety of products and capabilities.

Our signature Kitchen, Bath and Showroom of the Year winners were awarded in the mix, which also includes second places. We also gave awards for Best Balanced Budget and Best Use of Color – with a few honorable mentions in the Best Use of Color and Kitchen categories.

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This year’s winners include:

Kitchen of the Year

Shawna Dillon, Snaidero DC Metro

Bathroom of the Year

Michael R. Poole & Nea May Poole, Poole & Poole

Showroom of the Year

Brandy Cohen & Erika Klimenko, 210 Design

Second Place Kitchen

Jason Landau, Amazing Spaces

Second Place Bathroom

Dvira Ovadia, Dvira Interiors

Second Place Showroom

Signature Kitchen Suite Experience & Design Center Team

Best Balanced Budget

Heather Mauldin, Heather Mauldin Interiors

Best Use of Color

Paul Bentham, Lauren Levant Interior

Honorable Mention: Best Use of Color

Alfred Zuno, Siematic Möbelwerke

Honorable Mention: Kitchen

Wendy Williams, Snaidero USA Los Angeles Team

Meet This Year’s Judges

President and owner of Red Tree Builders, Brandon Bryant is a Master Certified Green Builder who prides himself in building healthy, environmentally sound and sustainable homes in the mountains of Asheville, N.C. As a builder with more than 14 years of experience, he is serving his second of two years as president of the Asheville Home Builders Association, where he has created the workforce development committee to provide a hub for future workers in the construction industry. His homes have been featured on the cover of Green Home Builder magazine and have won multiple national and regional awards. He was voted the 2015 Asheville Builder of the Year and was honored as a Builder Magazine Top 40 under 40.

Veronica Solomon brings more than 12 years of expertise as CEO and principal interior designer of the Casa Vilora Interiors team in Katy, Texas. She is a design blogger and influencer and has been an interior design business mentor to a community of more than 3,600 interior designers worldwide. She is a past president of the Interior Design Society Houston Chapter and was the Show House Chair for ASID TGCC in 2017. Solomon has won many prestigious industry awards and has been featured in numerous publications. Her design point of view can be summed up as eclectic, classic, bold, whimsical and timeless. The spaces she creates are known for their eclectic vibe and masterful use of color, pattern mix and textures.

Armed with degrees in architectural design and its history and theory, Laurie Haefele, associate member AIA and member of NKBA, ASID and ICAA, has been using her training to create upscale kitchen, boutique wardrobe and luxury bath designs since 1997. She launched her own firm – Santa Monica, Calif.-based Haefele Design Inc.- in 2002, and accolades began mounting soon after. She has won a variety of industry awards and was most recently awarded first place honors for Best Large Kitchen and Best Wet Bar by NKBA Southern California in 2018. A regular speaker at events such as the SoCal NKBA and Dwell on Design, Haefele regularly speaks at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, where she was previously a professor.

As one of the leading experts in kitchen, bath, and product design, Matthew Quinn has worked around the world, providing his clients with original, memorable living spaces. He is founder of the Matthew Quinn Collection and a principal of the Atlanta-based Design Galleria Kitchen and Bath Studio, a luxury kitchen, bath and architectural hardware showroom. Through residential, commercial, multi-unit and hospitality projects brought to him by top architects and interior designers, he increases the design and functionality of kitchens and baths. He has won numerous national design awards, is the author of one book with another coming out this fall and is planning to open a new showroom in Nashville, Tenn., later this year.